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#241242 - 01/18/11 11:18 AM more questions
vintagerace Offline
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Registered: 01/12/11
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1)How do I add a banner to my forum list page, to include a logo, etc. and perhaps some adverts at some later date? Is this a custom thing or does such a box setting already exist somewhere? If the latter, I don't see it. Feel free to point me at documentation!

2)In forum listing, we've got images to the left of each of our categories. Can I make them "clickable"? For example each of our categories is a vintage racing organization and we've put their logo to the left of the category title. I'd like to have users click on that org logo and have them taken to the organization's website. Any advice on how to do this?

3)A short while ago a page of control panel setting got blanked out causing the forum to revert to some default settings. Is it possible this happened because more than one of us admins were editing a given cp settings page?

thanks & sorry to be such high maintenance!
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#241245 - 01/18/11 11:40 AM Re: more questions [Re: vintagerace]
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For the banner see this page over at Sirdude's site.
http://sirdude.com/2010/661/adding-a-top-logo-to-your-ubb-threads-forum.html
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#241246 - 01/18/11 11:41 AM Re: more questions [Re: vintagerace]
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1) goto Control Panel » Display Options -Tab- HTML Includes
enter what you want in Default Header:
when posting html code just use what is between the body tags.

2)Probably is a code modification, Currently I am not sure what to edit since each one would be a different url. It might be easier to just place the link in the forum introduction
Control Panel » Forum Settings » Edit Forum -tab- Custom inserts

3)Could be, but probably was a hickup with your connection to your host while the changes were submitted and the data got hosed.
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#241252 - 01/18/11 05:17 PM Re: more questions [Re: vintagerace]
vintagerace Offline
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Registered: 01/12/11
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right after I posted this I found SirDude's website and have bookmarked it! GREAT stuff.

The problem of disappearing field values is reoccuring.. something weird is going on. Users got locked out too... not sure what's going on here. I'm not familiar enough with unix security to know if I have stuff locked down very well but I will be soon.
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#241258 - 01/18/11 07:45 PM Re: more questions [Re: vintagerace]
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Registered: 04/19/07
Posts: 4056
Loc: SoCal, USA
1. thanks Ian laugh

2. yes, just don't use the forum images option, but instead use the forum DESCRIPTION and put something like:

Html:
<a href="http://www.someothersite.com/link/that/you/want/to/goto">
<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/banners/forum-sponsor-banner-whatever.gif" 
alt="Click Here and visit somewhere nice!" 
border="0" /></a>
for the description.

You can add 'style="float:left;"' to float it left to look like you have already or leave that out and it will appear _under_ the forum name/title wink

3. there is a very small window that allows files to be locked and wiped. it is _very_ small, but exists. i made a post to it a _long_ time ago with the solution. lock_and_write was the culprit.. i can look it up again..
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#241260 - 01/18/11 08:08 PM Re: more questions [Re: SD]
vintagerace Offline
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Posts: 34
you rock.
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#241261 - 01/18/11 08:10 PM Re: more questions [Re: vintagerace]
vintagerace Offline
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Posts: 34
Jack had way too many windows open logged in as admin and editing stuff, perhaps the same one more than once.. I wonder if that could be causing fields to disappear.
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